The lastest opus from Opera Multi Steel – Apparences De L’Invisible was released on vinyl with a digital download. Following hot on the heels of their excellent Melancolie En Prose OMS had a challenge in following such a great album!
Side one opens with Circonstancielle Defiance which is beautiful collision between coldwave and mittelalter renaissance music and will work well on the dancefloor with fans fans of either genre. Angelic! Ad Nauseam slips back into classic coldwave and captures the infectious spirit of their previous album and will ignite the dancefloor. Love it! L’Extreme Veille D’Un Novembre Imminent – has all the charm of their early works with added female vocals. nice! Mirage Fatidique continues the beautiful fusion of coldwave and mittelalteresque music which will appeal to fans of Qntal, Helium Vola and early Die Form. Breathtaking!
Side 2 opens with La Air D’Verseau which will again appeal to fans of mittelalter and coldwave, reminds me of a coldwave O Quam Tristis. Masterful! La Voie Des Defunts – will appeal to fans of coldwave and neofolk. Darkly atmospheric and a hauntingly beautiful composition! Infini Sideral -sees a reintroduction for the need for speed with the classic pumping OMS bass driving this sparse coldwave classic which will be another hit on the cold dancefloor! Love it! Plus Qu’Imparfait Du Suggestif – If you could imagine The Cure trying to play coldwave it might sound like this musically. A Dark downtempo funeral delight!
This is definately an album which you might need to play a couple of times to appreciate its full coldwave addictiveness and yet another musical masterpiece from Opera Multi Steel that will cast a cold shadow across the world of dark music. But it now!
A definite must for the line up at The WGT in Leipzig 2015.

Here are my top 6 favourite videos of 2013 (in no particular order). There have been a lot of good Dark alternative songs released in 2013 but not many have been released with an artistic or thought provoking video which adds to the the pleasure of watching a video with a great song. The worst types of video I think are just to show a random selection of images, a band playing onstage(unless from a live concert) or playing their instruments in a field, dancing in a field, walking down a street, singing on a cliff etc with nothing to stimulate the mind visually or think more about the lyrics or meaning of the song.

GHOST – Year Zero

Year Zero – The video caught my attention after a friend posted it online. A great visualisation which reminds me of “The Omen”, “Rosemarys Baby” and other classic 70’s Satanic films which adds to the sinister suspicion of who is under the masks and robes of Ghost. The most perfect, catchy, disturbing power pop sing along song about satan. A supreme demonstration of Papa Emeritus II vocal talents. A great dark rock song!

NOI KABAT – Industry

I first saw a great live video of this song and couldn’t wait to hear the studio version. A great choice to put the song to the images of Threads by Barry Hines. An apocalyptic industrial Sheffield admist nuclear war. Epic electronica!

KILLING JOKE – Corporate Elect

Where the majority of old bands from the 80’s are just going through the motions Killing Joke are still on fire both live and on record. Love the way the video captures the brainwashing by advertisements, the way we accept economic slavery and erosion of free speech. Love it!